As of March 2026, this website is no longer being updated. I now work mainly on climate issues, especially in Brighton and Hove, and new work can be found on the website of Climate:Change, our independent think-tank on socially inclusive action in the City: www.climatechangebh.org.uk.
Meanwhile, however, this website has over 850 entries, mostly representing my work on international development from 2010-2025. Among much else, there are over 50 book reviews, more than 20 papers and training cases on bridging research and policy and on managing think-tanks, nearly 100 articles on climate change, and many papers on other topics, including aid, food security and nutrition, and the future of international development. See ‘Topics and Themes’ for more details. I can be reached at sm@simonmaxwell.net.
Development Frontiers: where poverty and sustainability meet
Development Frontiers: where poverty and sustainability meet
This is to draw people’s attention to the ESRC-DFID Development Frontiers Research Call, which I am directing. This is a £2.5m call on the intersection between poverty, sustainability and conflict/fragility, designed to encourage innovative, cross-disciplinary and multi-level (macro-micro) research on the ‘wicked problem’ of delivering simultaneously both poverty reduction and especially climate goals. A scoping paper is here.
Details of the call are still being finalised, but in the meantime, a workshop was organised to discuss the scope of the call and the modalities of new collaborations. There were some great speakers and a great discussion. The report has been published and is strongly recommended. Powerpoints are also available, by me, Nick Mabey, Prof Frances Stewart, and Prof Johan Schot.
I will post further details of the call as they emerge, but the primary source is the ESRCEconomic and Social Research Council website, here.
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